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Bob Chiarelli, IESO, LRP II, North Stormont, wind farm contracts, wind farms, wind power, Wynne government
Ordinary citizens not invited: Energy Minister Chiarelli (centre) at recent wind power lobby group event
Although the Ontario Minister of Energy Bob Chiarelli said it would be “virtually impossible” for a wind power developer to get a contract without municipal support, the recent announcement of new wind power contracts by the Independent Electricity Systems Operator (IESO) showed the opposite: three of the five municipalities where wind power developers were successful in getting contracts were officially “unwilling host” communities.
That included Dutton Dunwich, where the municipality had held a referendum, resulting in a vote of 84 percent of residents opposed to the power project. A U.S.-based power developer got the nod to build a huge, 60-megawatt power project. “We don’t live in the Province of Ontario,” the Mayor said; “we live in the Province of Toronto.”
Now, in spite of a surplus of power in Ontario, and power companies being paid to NOT produce power, the IESO is launching yet another bid process, the LRP II, this time for 600 more megawatts of expensive, intermittent and unneeded wind power.
And municipalities are getting ready: a resolution is circulating that notes statements from the Auditor General about the expense of wind power, the surplus power situation, the fact that there are no real environmental benefits from industrial-scale wind power projects and in fact harm to the natural environment results.
The resolution demands that municipal support be a mandatory requirement in future bids, not just a point-getting option for developers.
To date, 17 municipalities have approved the resolution in a few weeks.
May 10, the resolution comes before North Stormont Council at 6:30 PM in the municipal building in Berwick. Concerned Citizens of North Stormont is asking all affected residents to come and support the resolution—take back local control of development, for more effective community planning.
See more information on the Mandatory Municipal Support Resolution at the Wind Concerns Ontario website, here.
Ottawa Wind Concerns 
People of North Stormont, This runaway train has to be stopped. These units will cause the utility dills go up and up. Dont forget 4% of all hydro is produced by wynne turbines but they cost 20% of the generation budget. They are an unreliable hydro producer and the owers get paid weather they produce hydro or not. This will be going on for the next 25 years or the length of the contract. We the customers have to pay for these units with increased Hydro rates. They are just a big money maker for the Wynne regime and have been criticized by Forbes financial for killing businesses and breaking the backs of the Hydro customers. Please vote against these Wynne Turbines as you are putting the next generation of residents as well as all Hydro customers deeper in debt. Vote for solar power instead as it costs less and disturbs the environment a lot less than these 600 foot giants
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This gives me hope that we will eventually block the industrial wind turbine failed experiment in Ontario, but what will we do about the municipalities of rural Ontario who were lied to and convinced to get on board and now have so many residents being harmed? These people need our support until the day their homes are safe and secure. This government must be forced to reverse this damage to rural residents as soon as possible.
Lets get real here. The Wynne regime really doesn’t care abut the rural residents here. All they really care about is what money their party can bring in by giving these plush contracts to these companys with the terms being that they cannot loose. They get paid for making power, they get paid when their power generation is not needed and they get paid not to produce power. HOW CAN THEY LOOSE. The only people that loose are us the consumer that is forced to pay these outragious power rates that will be ever increasing into the middle of the 2020’s and longer.
These WYNNE TURBINES will produce jobs for Ontario.Yes jobs wil be created for a couple of months until they are installed.They are being made out of Canada so no jobs there. If they make power it is sold to the US for $.04/kwh yet the company that owns the turbines is paid $.08/kwh . There is a loss to the hydro consumers that saw the solar and wind turbines cost the government $750 million in payments not to produce power. That amount will be over $1 Billion dollars in the near future. The energy ministry says that they are producing clean air for us to breath with their projects for our good health. That is fine but now I cannot provide FOOD due to the high cost of the hydro bills so what good is clean air. All the government cares about is how much money can they squeeze out of us to put into their own pockets. I didn’t vote them in so if you cast a vote for the liberals you created this problem and we all will be paying for it for at least the next 25 years.
Time to move to BC where the residents are respected by the government and the hydro is almost as cheep as Quebec.